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Physicians Accounting, Ltd Selects Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine to Maximize Accurate, Effective Medical Billing
Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 -- Orion Health (http://www.orionhealth.com), a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, announces that Physicians Accounting, Ltd. has selected its Rhapsody? Integration Engine to serve as a platform to maximize the rate and efficiency of message exchange between its medical facilities and its billing and administrative offices. By using Rhapsody's off the shelf engine for their billing services, Physician's Accounting, Ltd (http://www.phsyactg.com). will be able to process more claims and ensure a higher rate of accuracy and reliability.
"With anesthesia billing and collections as the core of our business, Rhapsody enables us to seamlessly exchange data from their various systems without the need to replace existing information systems that we already have in place. Our ability to provide flexible, easy-to-use integration between ourselves and our partners is paramount in the healthcare industry," Ron Mueller, Chief Technologist, Physicians Accounting, Ltd.
Being able to process enormous amounts of data in a highly precise environment is critical to the billing industry to obtain a high rate of approved claims. Meeting the needs of their customers throughout the entire state of Wisconsin requires a flexible, robust and secure solution for sharing increasing volumes of information. Delivering timely information to the right places with speed, reliability and accuracy is key to their organization.
"Our business depends on the accuracy and reliability of our data, while ensuring that the data is available when we need it and how we need it; whether that be from our systems or one of our partners," said Ron Mueller, Chief Technologist, Physicians Accounting, Ltd.
Implementing Rhapsody Integration Engine will allow Physicians Accounting, LTD to share information within their organization and between their clients systems in an optimized format. Saving time and money automating processes that were once done manually, not only benefits themselves, but they can now extend these benefits to their clients, which face many issues to profitability in the ever-changing managed care environment of anesthesia practices.
"Leveraging Rhapsody beyond a traditional hospital environment and into the billing arena is a very practical application for our software and a natural extension of our typical customer profile," says Paul de Bazin, Rhapsody General Manager, Orion Health.
"Given that Rhapsody is designed especially for healthcare organizations, it's the perfect complement to Physicians Accounting, Ltd., whose serves this specialty group."
A Best in KLAS solution, Rhapsody has been specifically designed to provide a platform to meet the present and future needs of health integration. The Rhapsody Engine manages and streamlines message exchange between hospital applications, databases and external systems for effortless integration. Rhapsody delivers an integration platform with the lowest cost of ownership and highest return on investment.
About Physicians Accounting, LTD (http://www.physactg.com).:
Physicians Accounting, Ltd. serves the anesthesia billing and collections market. The company has grown from serving a single client to the dominate player in the Wisconsin region. Employing over 100 highly motivated experienced people, the company integrates technology into their practice to provide the best billing services possible.
About Orion Health (http://www.orionhealth.com):
Orion Health's easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine, Concerto Medical Application Portal, and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer.
Worldwide, Orion Health is implementing health information communities involving over 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users including Maine's HealthInfoNet and the Vermont Health Information Exchange. Orion Health's partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, IBM, Oracle Corporation, Sierra Systems and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including Lahey Clinic, New York State Department of Health, UCLA Medical Center, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More information can be found at www.orionhealth.com.
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